Winner of the 2022 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022
Am I My Brother's Keeper? offers powerful insights into the challenges
of implementing large-scale educational change. The book, chronicling
the Expanded Success Initiative (ESI), a four-year study focused on
improving the educational outcomes of fifteen thousand Black and Latinx
males in New York City public high schools, covers what worked, what
didn't, and what we can learn from the experience.
The ESI model, a precursor to President Obama's My Brother's Keeper,
highlights the ways that school districts can embed educational equity
into the principles and policies that guide their work with students, in
contrast to implementing stand-alone initiatives that may come and go.
Through the voices of students, teachers, and administrators, the book
informs the implementation of other large-scale district-community
partnerships designed to improve opportunities and outcomes for young
people who have systematically been denied both. Most critically, the
book provides policy, practice, and research recommendations to inform
the next generation of work with this student population.
As sustained protests across the United States call attention to the
ravages of systemic racism, Am I My Brother's Keeper? highlights
concrete steps that school districts can take to confront racist
structures and support young people of color.
